'Lo all-- I'm thinking of trying a new email setup, and was wondering if folks can give me some advice.
I use Mail.app to access two email accounts: an IMAP .Mac account and a POP3 Gmail account. As everyone knows, IMAP on Mail on a less-zippy-line is slow as Christmas. And I"m in Lebanon and a very slow line with a data cap, so anything I can do to a) speed up Mail.app and b) cut down on unwanted emails would be great.
I also have two computers: a 20-in. iMac which is always on and a PowerBook, which is my main computer.
So here's what I was thinking:
1. Set up some kind of system where the iMac downloads my .Mac and Gmail email after checking messages for spam. It would download good and iffy messages, but just delete from the .Mac and gmail servers anything that was definitely spam without downloading them.
2. Set up an IMAP server on the iMac so I can get my downloaded messages from either the iMac or the powerbook. Since it will be downloading messages without my interaction every few minutes and i"ll be accessing the messages over the LAN without going onto the internet, the IMAP performance of Mail.app should be much faster, right?
3. Ideally, I'd like to be able to switch back and forth between fetching messages from my iMac server when I'm at home and connecting to the .Mac and gmail servers over the INternet when I'm out of the house and on a faster connection.
Is there a way to do this, and what would the setup be?
Thanks!
chris
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